Newsletter 4/2018
ANTI Festival 2018
Festival artists visiting Kuopio in May
Follow Action Hero’s journey towards Kuopio!
Greetings from the April audience workshop
ANTI Festival 2018
In April, we published the five lead works of our international festival programme. Did you already read about them?
Festival artists visiting Kuopio in May
Tania El Khoury & Ziad Abu-Rish
Tania El Khoury, the 2017 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, returns to Kuopio with a new work, The Search for Power, and an international touring hit, As Far As My Fingertips Take Me.
The Search for Power will be made for Kuopio, and El Khoury together with her working partner Ziad Abu-Rish will spend a short residency in Kuopio between 22nd and 25th May.
Rosalind Goldberg & Ingvild Langgård
Still Life is a Nordic collaboration project between ANTI Festival, Norwegian set designer Signe Becker, Swedish choreographer Rosalind Goldberg and Norwegian musician Ingvild Langgård. The work will premiere at ANTI Festival in September.
Rosalind Goldberg and Ingvild Langgård will arrive to Kuopio to prepare the site-specific work and rehearse with local dancers – dance students of Riveria Outokumpu – between 29th May and 6th June.
Follow Action Hero’s journey towards Kuopio!
Over 6 months in 2018, the internationally celebrated duo Action Hero are travelling over 30,000km across Europe in a motorhome, recording love songs sung by the people they meet.
They invite ANTI Festival and the people of Kuopio to contribute to the process by recording love songs in their mobile studio and by encountering material gathered on their journey through Europe’s contested identity.
This ever-evolving library of songs will be broadcast 24/7 from beacons placed across the continent by the intrepid duo. Listen and follow the journey on www.oheuropa.com!
Greetings from the April audience workshops
Divercities Kuopio workshop
On 26th April, in the Divercities Kuopio workshop, a group of creative residents of Kuopio took part in planning the internationally delivered Divercities mobile application and creating a section for Kuopio full of inspiration and new, contemporary views to our city.
We gathered together ideas from thematic walking routes to interesting local phenomena and urban acts!
Audience panel
On 25th April, we invited our audiences to express their opinions on our plans around the coming festival programme.
Artistic directors Johanna Tuukkanen and Gregg Whelan have prepared a programme draft, and the audience panel was the first one to hear about it.
The members of the panel shared their experiences as young people, as someone new to ANTI Festival – several precious views that we will definitely take into consideration.
Thank you to all the participants in the audience panel as well as in the Divercities Kuopio workshop!
